Numbering-machine.



No. 643,440. Patentedfmayrlymoo. F. SANDERS.

NUMBERING MACHINE..

(Application le'd Dec. 28, 1897.) (No Model.)

FRANK SANDERS, OF NEIY YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH VETTER OO., OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 648,440, dated May 1, 1900. Application filed December 28, 1897. Serial No. 668,848. (No model.)

To @ZZ wwm t may @wwwa/.- vention is embodied, together with other feal Be it known that I, FRANK SANDERS, a cititures of improvement, will be more fully dezen of the United States, and a resident of scribed hereinafter with reference to the ac- New York, (Brooklym) in the county of Kings companying drawings, in which- 55 5 and State of New York, have invented cer- Figure lisa plan view of a machine adapted tain new and useful Improvements in Numto be locked in a form with the type to which bering-Maehines, of which the following is a this improvement has been applied. Fig. 2 specification, reference being had to the acis a section on the plane indicated by the line i companying drawings, forminga part hereof. 2 2 of Fig. 1, the inner frame or case being 6o 1o This invention relates to consecutive-numin its elevated position. Fig. 3 is a view bering machines or other machines of like similar to Fig. 2, but with the frame or case character in which the figures or other charin its depressed position. Fig. 4 isaview simi` acters to be printed are formed upon wheels lar to Figs. 2 and 3, but showing the lifter in' which are adapted to be rotated to bring the its raised position. Fig. 5 is a section on the 6 5 I5 desired character to the lineof print. In the plane indicated by the line 5 5 of Fig. 1. Fig. use of such machines it is desirable to etfect 6 is a horizontal sectional detail on the plane the complete separation of the paper upon indicated by the line 6 6 of Fig. 5. which an impression has just been made from The nulnberingmachine which for pur'- the type-wheels before they are shifted to poses of explanation of my invention hasbeen 7o 2o bring another character to the line of print chosen for illustration in the accompanying lest the impression should be blurred. To drawings is adapted to be locked in the form this end provision is sometimes made for with the type and comprises an outer frame locking the wheels against movement until or case A,within which the numbering-wheels the platen of the press has withdrawn to its arp placed. The particular means whereby 75 25 full distance from the numbering-wheels. It the necessary movement is imparted to the has also been proposed to accomplish the numbering-wheels are not material to the same result by pushing the paper away from present invention; butin the machine shown the numbering-wheels before they are allowed in the drawings the numbering-wheels B B to turn; but so far as I am aware the means are mountedto rotate upon a shaft O,which 8o 3o last referred to have not proved satisfactory is fixed in an inner frame or case D, the latin use, partly because the lifter could not deter being supported upon springs CZ and havscend below the plane of contact with the ing a limited vertical movement within the inkingroller,and therefore madeapermanent outer case or frame A. A pawl-frame E is mark upon the paper, and partly because, mounted to swing upon the shaft O and is 85 35 with the construction suggested, the lifter provided with pawls to actuate the numbercould not have the proper amplitude of moveing-wheels in the usual manner. One of the ment. end members of the inner frame or case D is Accordingly the main object of this invenrecessed, as at CZ', to receive a lever F,which tion is to provide improved means for lifting is pivoted at one end, as at f, to the inner 9o 4o the paper away from the numbering-wheels frame or case and at the other end is probefore they are allowed to turn or preventing vided with a pin f', which projects through the turning of the wheels until the paper has an elongated opening cl2 and engages the pawlleft the wheels,the lifter orcontact device havframe E. A screw pin or stud G is seated in ing an amplitude of movement sufficient to the end of the outer frame or case Aand en- 95 45 insure the complete separation of the paper ters a slot f2 in the lever F, sothat as the infrom the numberingwheels and descending ner frame or case is depressed by the action below the plane of print, so that it shall esof the press and is raised by the action of the cape contact with the inking-roller and the springs d d the pawl-frame is actuated to efmaking of a permanent mark upon the paper feet the proper movement of the numberingroo 5o by the lifter be thereby avoided. wheels. The pin or stud G by its cooperation The improved construction wherein the inwith the lever F in the recess d of the inner frame or ease l) also serves to limit the movement of the inner frame or case, and its removal permits the inner frame or case and the parts carried thereby to be withdrawn Vfrom the outer trame or case A `for cleaning or any other purpose.

Upon the shaft C is loosely mounted a toothed wheel II, which is actuated slightly in advance of the lirst numbering-wheel by a pawl e, carried by the pawl-frame E. A lever I is pivoted at one end upon the inner frame or case D and rests upon the toothed wheel II, having on its under side a projection t' :for contact with said toothed wheel and being held toward the toothed wheel by a spring t'. At its extremity the lever I engages, as by a suitable pin-and-slot connection i2, a second lever or lifter or contact device K for contact with the paper at a point between its pivot 7c and its free end 7t",where by the movement of the free end L of the lever K is considerably greater than the move ment et the free end of the lever I. The lever or lifter K is pivoted to the frame or casing I), and the free end is suitably formed for contact with the paper. By reason oi the amplitude of the movement of the lever or lifter or contact device K it can be permitted to and does drop below the plane of print and out of reach of the hiking-roller, so that its contact with the paper cannot leave a permanent mark thereon, and when operated by the movement of the toothed wheel II it rises quickly and iar enough above the plane of print to insure the separation of the paper from the numbering-wheels before the rotary movement of the wheels commences, either lifting the paper, if the pressure thereof is light, or, ii the pressure is heavy, acting` through the lever I and toothed wheel lI to prevent the swinging of the pawl-frame E, and therefore to prevent the shifting of the numbering-wheels until the paper has left them.

I claim as my inventionl l. In a numbering-machine, the combination with the nu mbering-wheels and the pawlframe, of a lifter or contact device having a range of movement above and below the plane of print, and means controlled by said lifter or contact device to prevent the movement of said pawl-frame and to release the same when said lifter or contact device is above the plane ot print.

2. In a numbering-machine the combination with the nu 1nbering-wheels and the pawl.- frame, et' a litter or contact device having a range of movement above and below the plane of print,a toothed wheel engaged bysaid pawlframe, and a stop or projection operatively connected with said lifter or contact device for engagement with said toothed wheel.

5. In a numbering-machine, the combination with the numbering-wheels, of a toothed wheel, means to actuate the same, a lever resting upon said toothed wheel, and a lifter conneeied to the free end of said lever whereby the effective Vforward movement of said wheel takes place when the lifter is in its highest position, substantially as shown and described.

1t. In a numberinganachine, the combination with the numbering-wheeis, of a toothed wheel, means to act uate the same, a lever resting` atan intermediate point upon said toothed wheel, and a second or lifter lever connected to the 'free end ofthe iirst-named lever whereby the effective 'forward movement ot' said wheel takes place when the lilter is in its highest position, substantially as shown and described.

5. In a numbering-machine, the combina tion with an outer frame or caso, an inner frame or case vertically movable within the outer frame or ease, and numbering-wheols mounted in J[he vertically-movable 'frame or case, of a toothed wheel mounted with the numberingewheels, means to aetuate said toothed wheel, a lever pivoted npon the vertically-movable frame or ease and resting upon said toothed wheel and a second or lil'ter lever pivoted upon said vertically-movable frame or ease and connected at an intermediate point tothe `tree end of the Iirstnanied lever, substantially as shown and described.

This speciiication signed and witnessed this 23d day et December, A. I). ISST. 

